The Poultry man's 

 Handbook 



POULTRY RAISING 



Poultry and poultry products add to the wealth of 

 the county each year more than wheat, cotton, or gold. 

 Poultry can .be kept successfully in almost every part 

 of the world and is the most profitable kind of live- 

 stock that can be kept. A few fowls can be kept by 

 the intensive system in very confined quarters, and 

 enough to provide poultry and eggs for a small family 

 can be raised profitably in a corner of a small town lot; 

 more can be kept on a little additional space. 



An attractive feature of poultry raising is that fowls 

 may be kept for pleasure as well as profit. A fancier 

 may use the best of all the fowls he raises for exhibi- 

 tion, sell a few of equal or almost equal quality to 

 others for the same purpose, sell eggs from pens of 

 mated fowls for hatching, and the culls of the flock 

 will be the best of market poultry. At the same time 

 the flock will furnish a large part of the egg and meat 

 diet for a small family. 



Poultry farming can be followed by almost any one 

 who has a small piece of ground and a few dollars to 

 begin with. The business should be begun in a small 

 way and built up gradually. Thousands of men and 

 women are becoming independent each year from a be- 

 ginning with a little piece of ground on which they 

 raise poultry and vegetables. On a small town lot 

 50 ft. x 100 ft. almost enough vegetables may be raised 

 to provide for a family for a year, and at the same 



